Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of westerners happily being led through a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival was a historical landmark moment for the 21st century, and the group’s...
Caitlin Johnstone

The Fictional Mental Illness That Only Affects Enemies Of The Western Empire
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Within the storytelling of western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental illness which only affects people the US empire doesn’t like. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its crazy lunatic government will flip out and nuke us all. Watch out for...

It Was Never About Hostages. It Was Never About Hamas.
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his top priority, suggesting instead that defeating Hamas should take precedence over a hostage deal. “We have many objectives, many goals in this war,” Netanyahu said. “We...
Trump Shares Collateral Murder-Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump has posted a video on social media showing a US airstrike in Yemen killing dozens of people who he claims are “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack.” Trump also bizarrely suggested that Ansar Allah has been sinking US ships in its...
Democrats Release Insanely Hawkish Middle East Policy Platform
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
Celebrity progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris “is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza” at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night. There is literally no evidentiary basis anywhere for...
Peace Is Not On The Ballot In November
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
I keep seeing liberal commentators like George Takei trying to frame Kamala Harris as the best candidate to bring peace to the middle east, despite her coming directly out of the administration which has been lighting the region on fire with its insane...
US Policy: Let Israel Escalate Against Iran, Then Tell Iran Not To Escalate Back
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
In an article titled “U.S. Warns Iran of ‘Serious Risk’ if It Conducts Major Attack on Israel,” The Wall Street Journal reports that officials within the Biden administration have been warning Iran not to “escalate” against Israel in its planned retaliatory strikes...
Israel Sure Looks Like It Wants To Prevent Peace And Start A New War
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Israel has been on another assassination spree, killing Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh on Wednesday with an airstrike while he was in Tehran for the swearing in of the new Iranian president. Israel also claims to have killed Hezbollah...
Former Israeli PM Admits Israel’s War Crimes Can’t Happen Without US Support
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has been launching a forceful attack on Benjamin Netanyahu in both US and Israeli media for sabotaging peace in Gaza and pushing Israel to the brink with Hezbollah in Lebanon, during which he inadvertently...
The US Is Preparing For WWIII While Expanding Draft Registration
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
So I guess we should probably talk about the way NATO powers are rapidly escalating toward hot war with Russia at the same time the US is expanding its draft policies to make it easier to force more Americans go and fight in a giant war. In an article titled “NATO:...
The Reckless Brinkmanship With Russia Just Keeps On Escalating
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
It’s damn near impossible to keep up with all the warmongering of the western empire these days. In response to the frightening steps that NATO has been taking to allow western-supplied weapons to be used by Ukraine to strike Russian...
The US Empire Isn’t A Government That Runs Nonstop Wars, It’s A Nonstop War That Runs A Government
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government. The wars are not designed to serve the...
Like So Much Else, The Fuss Over ‘International Law’ Is Really About Narrative Control
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to cease its assault on Rafah, an order which will certainly be disregarded by Israel with the full support of Washington. This comes days after the International Criminal Court announced its...
Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The U.S. secretary of state and a Bilderberg surveillance tech oligarch have both made some very interesting admissions about the burgeoning protest movement against the U.S.-backed slaughter in Gaza and the problems it poses for the empire they help run....
Biden Says The US ‘Does Not Seek Conflict In The Middle East’ While Actively Dropping Bombs There
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration has begun its latest bombing campaign in the middle east, reportedly dropping over 125 munitions on more than 85 Iranian and Shia militia targets in Iraq and Syria on Friday. The mainstream press have been falling all over...
US Admonishes Israeli Officials For Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud About Ethnic Cleansing
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
The US State Department has issued a statement indignantly finger-wagging at two Israeli officials who recently drew headlines for openly endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. The statement reads as follows: “The United States...
Mass Media Reporters Aren't Buying Israel's Hospital Bombing Story
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured Articles
A huge blast in Gaza has destroyed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, killing hundreds of people. The exact death toll is still unknown. Details of who is responsible for the explosion are being hotly debated by all parties, and this is still a developing story with a lot of...
People Have A Serious Case Of 9/11 Brain Right Now, And It's Scary
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured Articles
I had to take a short break from reading about what’s happening in Gaza. I saw one too many images of dead kids on Twitter and just had to lie down for a while. It was like running out of health in a video game. I was still trucking along, and then I saw this one...
Queen Warmonger Hillary Clinton Complains About 'Men Starting Wars'
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
Some days the Caitlin Johnstone articles just write themselves. During her self-titled annual awards ceremony at Georgetown University on Thursday, Hillary Clinton said that the biggest obstacle to peace and security around the world is “men starting wars.” During the...
Journalism Itself Is Locked Up In Belmarsh
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 5, 2023 | Featured Articles
As the 17th anniversary of the creation of WikiLeaks passes us by, it’s probably worth taking a moment to reflect on Julian Assange and what his persecution means for us and our society. Because in a very real sense, it’s not just a man locked up in Belmarsh Prison...
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